Dorothy Nimmo
Dorothy Nimmo (born in Manchester - 24 May 2001) was a British poet.
Life
She was educated in York and Cambridge and worked as an actress in London. She spent the 1960s in Geneva but came back to England in 1970 to Peterborough, where she brought up four children, gardened and kept goats.
After her divorce in 1980 she moved to Lancaster where she graduated from Lancaster University in 1989. She spent nine months at Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation.
She returned to be caretaker of the Friends Meeting House Gloucester, and cook at a vegetarian restaurant. She was then caretaker of the Friends Meeting House in Settle, Yorkshire.[1]
Her work appeared in Stand,[2] Thumbscrew,[3] Areté Magazine,[4] Oxford Poetry.[5]
Awards
- Cardiff, Bridport, South Manchester and Prema competitions.
- guest poet at the Aldeburgh Festival in November 1995.
- 1996 Cholmondeley Award
Works
- Homewards. Giant Steps. 1987. ISBN 9780948727030.
- Kill the Black Parrot. Littlewood Arc. 1993. ISBN 9780946407736.
- A Testimony to the Grace of God in the Life of James Nayler 1618-1660. Sessions Book Trust. 1993. ISBN 9781850721291.
- The Underhill Experience. Smith/Doorstop. 1995. ISBN 9781869961671.
- The Children's Game. Smith/Doorstop. 1998. ISBN 9781869961862.
- The Wigbox: New & Selected Poems. Smith/Doorstop Books. 2000. ISBN 9781902382241.
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